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medicine

Flesh Memory: This Company Uploaded The Heart Into The Cloud

Tomas Kellner
December 15, 2016
GER: You didn’t turn Steven into an engineer, but he turned you into a moviemaker.
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space

The Whole Earth Catalog: Google Updates Its Planetary Picture Show

Tomas Kellner
December 08, 2016
AS: The computer consisted of three racks of equipment. Each rack was 2 feet wide and 7 feet tall. There was air conditioning at the bottom of each rack to cool it off because the circuits ran pretty warm. The memory could range from 8,000 to 16,000 20-bit words. It had an auxiliary memory that could go to 32,000 20-bit words. The computer interfaced with magnetic tapes, with punch cards and punch tapes, among other things.
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This Is What We Call A Bright Light: GE Just Put Alexa Into An LED Lamp

Dorothy Pomerantz
December 07, 2016
GER: How small was this small computer?
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Minds-Machines

Sticking The Landing: Behind The Winning App At GE’s Industrial Internet Hackathon

Dorothy Pomerantz
December 05, 2016
Arnold Spielberg in 1961. Image credit: Museum of Innovation and Science Schenectady
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medicine

Beam Me Up, Herve: This Engineer Helped Design A CT Machine That Accelerates To 70 Gs [Video]

Tomas Kellner
December 01, 2016
When the first group of American astronauts started training for space flight in the 1950s, Air Force doctors put them through a number of wrenching trials. In one, they had to endure many multiples of the force of gravity we experience at sea level — or G-force. John Glenn experienced 7.9 Gs during his first orbital flight, and others briefly went as high as 32 Gs on Houston’s infamous G Machine. “You couldn't lift your arm out of the couch above about 6 or 7 Gs,” Glenn told a historian. “Beyond that you were just supported there.”
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Energy

This Is What We Call A Sea Change! Shell's Floating Giant Will Revolutionize The Natural Gas Industry

November 30, 2016
It’s not unusual to see giant cruise or cargo ships out at sea today. But even by those standards, Shell’s new floating liquefied natural gas facility is huge.
Dubbed Prelude after the gas field where it will operate off the coast of northwestern Australia, the massive facility is 488 meters long and 74 meters wide. Its footprint is larger than an average New York City block, or, if you prefer sports, large enough for four soccer fields. .
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medicine

Eye Robot: New Virtual Onsite Trainers Are Helping Hospitals Get The Most Out Of New Technology

Kristin Kloberdanz
November 27, 2016

In the hushed halls of the Universitario Quironsalud hospital in Madrid, there’s a new sound — the chatter of experts who are thousands of miles away helping doctors get the most out of their new high-tech diagnostic equipment.

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3D Printing

Das Ist Techno! This Power Plant With 3D-Printed Parts Is Pumping Up Berlin With Heat And Electricity

Dorothy Pomerantz
November 09, 2016
3D printing has quickly evolved from a cool way to make plastic gizmos to an increasingly mainstream method of printing machine parts from the toughest metals. In fact, you can already hitch a ride on a next-generation Airbus passenger jet that uses engines with 3D-printed fuel nozzles inside. Since last September, 3D-printed technology has helped run a large power plant near the capital of Germany, Berlin.
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Back To The Future: This GE Software Engineer Used Code To Bring New Muscle To His Ford Mustang

Kristin Kloberdanz
November 08, 2016
Grease monkeys have been tinkering with Ford Mustangs — the most iconic of the classic American muscle cars — ever since the first one rolled out in 1964. But a car enthusiast in Germany has taken tinkering to the next level. Hanns Proenen, the chief information security officer for GE in Europe, has hacked his Mustang using Predix, GE’s cloud-based platform for the Industrial Internet. He says his classic car is now a data-gathering machine that could rival an electric car.
Baseball

Cubs Win: After Historic Game 7 Of The World Series, Here's The Origin Story Of Night Baseball

Tomas Kellner
November 02, 2016
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You know the result.

As the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs squared off last night at Cleveland’s Progressive Field—in search of their first World Series wins in 68 and 108 years respectively—it was a fair bet that few fans were focused on the stadium’s lights.  But that wasn’t always the case. For almost a century after Abner Doubleday “invented” baseball on a cow pasture in the middle of Cooperstown, New York, night games were rarer than a Honus Wagner card.

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